The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
LORD BYRONIn solitude, where we are least alone.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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